Beforehand, it was unclear whether rust was performing the "recommended set" of
optimizations provided by LLVM for code. This commit changes the way we run
passes to closely mirror that of clang, which in theory does it correctly. The
notable changes include:
* Passes are no longer explicitly added one by one. This would be difficult to
keep up with as LLVM changes and we don't guaranteed always know the best
order in which to run passes
* Passes are now managed by LLVM's PassManagerBuilder object. This is then used
to populate the various pass managers run.
* We now run both a FunctionPassManager and a module-wide PassManager. This is
what clang does, and I presume that we *may* see a speed boost from the
module-wide passes just having to do less work. I have no measured this.
* The codegen pass manager has been extracted to its own separate pass manager
to not get mixed up with the other passes
* All pass managers now include passes for target-specific data layout and
analysis passes
Some new features include:
* You can now print all passes being run with `-Z print-llvm-passes`
* When specifying passes via `--passes`, the passes are now appended to the
default list of passes instead of overwriting them.
* The output of `--passes list` is now generated by LLVM instead of maintaining
a list of passes ourselves
* Loop vectorization is turned on by default as an optimization pass and can be
disabled with `-Z no-vectorize-loops`
We currently have no need for the frame pointers on any platform. They
may eventually be needed on platforms without an equivalent to the DWARF
call frame information to walk the stack in the garbage collector.
Closes#7477
The first commit message is pretty good, but whomever reviews this should probably also at least glance at the changes I made in LLVM. I basically reorganized our pending patch queue to be a bit more organized and clearer in what needs to go where. After this, our queue would be:
* Add the `no-split-stack` attribute
* Add the `fixedstacksegment` attribute
* Add split-stacks for arm android
* Add split-stacks for arm linux
* Add split stacks for mips
Then there's a patch which I added to get rust to build at all on LLVM-head, and I'm not quite sure why it's there, but nothing seems to be crashing for now! (famous last words).
Otherwise, I just updated code to reflect the changes I made in LLVM with the only major change being the advent of the new `no_split_stack` attribute. This is work towards #1226, but someone more familiar with the code should probably actually assign the attribute to the appropriate functions.
Also as a bonus, I've verified that this closes#5774
Adds `--target-cpu` flag which lets you choose a more specific target cpu instead of just passing the default, `generic`. It's more or less akin to `-mcpu`/`-mtune` in clang/gcc.
This can be applied to statics and it will indicate that LLVM will attempt to
merge the constant in .data with other statics.
I have preliminarily applied this to all of the statics generated by the new
`ifmt!` syntax extension. I compiled a file with 1000 calls to `ifmt!` and a
separate file with 1000 calls to `fmt!` to compare the sizes, and the results
were:
fmt 310k
ifmt (before) 529k
ifmt (after) 202k
This now means that ifmt! is both faster and smaller than fmt!, yay!
* LLVM now has a C interface to LLVMBuildAtomicRMW
* The exception handling support for the JIT seems to have been dropped
* Various interfaces have been added or headers have changed
Refactor the optimization passes to explicitly use the passes. This commit
just re-implements the same passes as were already being run.
It also adds an option (behind `-Z`) to run the LLVM lint pass on the
unoptimized IR.
The default versions (atomic_load and atomic_store) are sequentially consistent.
The atomic_load_acq intrinsic acquires as described in [1].
The atomic_store_rel intrinsic releases as described in [1].
[1]: http://llvm.org/docs/Atomics.html
In my WIP on rustpkg, I was calling driver code that calls
LLVMRustWriteOutputFile more than once. This was making LLVM
unhappy, since that function has code that initializes the
command-line options for LLVM, and I guess you can't do that more
than once. So, check if they've already been initialized.
adjusting a few foreign functions that were declared with by-ref
mode. This also allows us to remove by-val mode in the near future.
With copy mode, though, we have to be careful because Rust will implicitly pass
somethings by pointer but this may not be the C ABI rules. For example, rust
will pass a struct Foo as a Foo*. So I added some code into the adapters to
fix this (though the C ABI rules may put the pointer back, oh well).
This patch also includes a lint mode for the use of by-ref mode
in foreign functions as the semantics of this have changed.
DebugFlag is conditionally exported by LLVM in llvm/Support/Debug.h
in-between an #ifndef NDEBUG block; RustWrapper should not
unconditionally use it. This closes#3701.
Signed-off-by: Luca Bruno <lucab@debian.org>
